Last night, after an obviously quixotic “make a grand but futile gesture” filibuster by Senator Rand Paul that caused a blink-and-you-missed it government “shutdown,” Congress passed a big fat spending increase, one that gave both the...

The obstructing ink of our politicos is thicker than ever, the darting evasions harder to follow, in figuring all of the misconduct from all the actors in the fiasco that was the 2016 Presidential election. The principal charge leveled in my recent article on the...

Last night, the Philadelphia Eagles outscored the favored New England Patriots 41-33 to win Super Bowl LII. The blue states of New England wept, while the rest of the nation rejoiced at the upset of golden boy Tom Brady’s dynastic team. It was a wild game, with...

A small story out of New York offers us a glimpse into the mind of progressive politicians and thinkers. A couple years back, as I was driving in upstate New York, I noticed these spiffy new signs extolling the virtues of the state. Turns out, they were an initiative...

One basic rule of logical debate tells us that anecdotes are not data, and that setting policy based on singular instances is a bad idea. Much to Sheldon Cooper’s dismay, however, we are not a planet of Vulcans, where Spock-like logic and emotional detachment...

It’s become quite fashionable to call Trump, and by extension all who support him, “fascist.” That is, of course, when people aren’t going full-Godwin (I had one such conversation yesterday, where someone was conflating Trump with Hitler, and...